<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," they do not feel like fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the local level, revenues which exceed the limit will have to be used to reduce local property taxes; at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41995]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the local level, revenues which exceed the limit will have to be used to reduce local property taxes; at the state level, revenues beyond the limit can be used to reduce existing taxes or as cash rebates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24370]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27224]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. -Farrah Fawcett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud. We're the fastest-growing segment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud. We're the fastest-growing segment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble in every thought And in every deed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AVID changes how public schools teach. It provides struggling students, kids in the middle with intensive tutoring and shows them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40502]]></link><description><![CDATA[AVID changes how public schools teach. It provides struggling students, kids in the middle with intensive tutoring and shows them how to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being a watch,   But being watched that it may still go right!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27178]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. [Lat., Consilia res magis dant hominibus quam homines rebus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57689]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the truth the greater the libel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the truth the greater the libel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59769]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38892]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14047]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It adds to the glory both of soule and body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49557]]></link><description><![CDATA[It adds to the glory both of soule and body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45336]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell;  Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,   But at the dusk--he's abroad and well!    Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him--     All mock him outright, by day:      But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,       The boldest will shrink away!        O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,         Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are much further along than anything I anticipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that these people had not accepted what up to that moment had been considered a necessary part of the Christian teaching. The question was whether they could be admitted without accepting the teaching and undergoing the rite. It was that question which was settled by the acknowledgement that they had received the Holy Spirit... The difficulty today is that Christians acknowledge that others have the Spirit, and yet do not recognize that they ought to be, and must be -- because spiritually they are -- in communion with one another. Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and  The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and  The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;   The varied and ample land,--the South    And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri,     And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.   - Walt Whitman,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  I will tell you what to hate: hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate intolerance, oppression, injustice; hate pharisaism. Hate them as Christ hated them, with a deep, living, godlike hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65767]]></link><description><![CDATA[We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral. (on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one day gives us, another takes away from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one day gives us, another takes away from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord to You we give thanksthat in time Polish horses ... defeat Nazi tanks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18178]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord to You we give thanksthat in time Polish horses ... defeat Nazi tanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16716</guid></item></channel></rss>